2017 is Canada’s 150th birthday year, and the Canadian Quilters Association has organized a special event for the occasion. They will hold a big quilt bee at the Quilt Canada show in Toronto in June. The goal is to make and donate (at least) 1,000 quilts for Ronald McDonald Houses all across Canada. They are collecting slab blocks with a finished size of 12″, and the only condition is that at least one piece of one of the official Canada 150 celebration fabrics has to be used in each block. Both Chilliwack guilds are making blocks, and some members are even making whole quilt tops. Kate made this twisted Log Cabin top, and I volunteered to quilt it. The red centre pieces were just screaming for maple leaves, that was very obvious from the beginning. As for the rest, I quilted straight lines in the dark areas and free motion swirls and maple leaves in the white areas.